a veteran’s day prayer

When You come to judge the nations,
when all swords shall be hammered into ploughshares, and all spears crafted into pruning-hooks;
when nation shall not lift up sword against nation, and no one shall they learn war any more.

Until that glorious day, Your ear is attuned to the suffering cry of your people

You hear the cry of the oppressed, the crushed, the attacked, and the terrorized

You hear our prayer “deliver us from evil”

Lord, You call up Moses, Abraham, Gideon, Deborah, Saul, Jonathon and David

To defeat Goliath, to stand against Pharaoh, and rescue Lot

Your call goes forth

To defend, the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and those the huddled in fear